Report "magic"

[Paul Schwartz]

No bigee. Nautilus is just the name of the standard program that Ubuntu uses to look at the disk drive contents.

Paul

--- On Sun, 7/4/10, Tom Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu> wrote:

From: Tom Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu>
Subject: Re: Report "magic"
To: "Paul Schwartz" <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
Date: Sunday, July 4, 2010, 7:40 AM





  
  
Paul,



Thanks for your  reply.  I will have to learn about  Nautilus, since I
have not heard about that and what it does.  Yes, your reply does fill
out your earlier answer a little better.



Tom



On 07/03/2010 05:48 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote:

  
    
      
        I don't think what I do is very special. After I prepare
a report, I click on the icon that exports the report as html and save
it in my reports folder. Then I open nautilus, go to that folder and
right click on the report. On my system my top choice is open as spread
sheet in OO. You might have to choose a different option, but you need
to do the same thing.

        

From that point I have to decide if I'm just dealing with a formatting
issue [which is pretty straightforward, or if I have to change numbers
and add lines. In the latter case you will have to edit some of the
entries to turn some text items to dates or numbers.

        

HTH

        

Paul

        

--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Thomas Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu>
wrote:

        

From: Thomas Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu>

Subject: 

To: "Paul Schwartz" <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com>

Cc: "gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org"
<gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>

Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 9:05 AM

          

          
          


          
            
            
          You   said:
            
          I'm still living in the dark ages of the
2.2 series of
Gnucash, and exporting reports to html, then opening with OO gives me
all of
the flexibility I need to fix Gnucash errors or reorganize reports to
forms
that satisfy my accountant. It has worked with all OO versions that
I've used.
I'm currently using the release from Ubuntu 9.10.
            
            
          Paul,
            
          I also use Ubuntu 9.10 which means I
have GC 2.2.9 (I
think).  It would be a help if you could be a little more explicit
about
the steps used in
          a)     
          Exporting reports to html, and
          b)     
          Reorganizing reports to forms satisfying your
accountant
via OO, which I take to mean Open Office
            
          I get the general idea,  but having a
few more steps
brings the process into focus much better.
            
          It would help me if you can find the
time to expand on your
success! :^)
            
          Thanks.  I appreciate whatever you can
do.
            
          Tom Bullock